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Flexible error protection for energy efficient reliable architectures ∗.
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| Author | Miller, Timothy Surapaneni, Nagarjuna Teodorescu, Radu |
| Abstract | Technology scaling is having an increasingly detrimental effect on microprocessor reliability, with increased variability and higher susceptibility to errors. At the same time, as integration of chip multiprocessors increases, power consumption is becoming a significant bottleneck that could threaten their growth. To deal with these competing trends, energy-efficient solutions are needed to deal with reliability problems. This paper presents a reliable multicore architecture that provides targeted error protection by adapting to the characteristics of individual cores and workloads, with the goal of providing reliability with minimum energy. The user can specify an acceptable reliability target for each chip, core, or application. The system then adjusts a range of parameters, including replication and supply voltage, to meet that reliability goal. In this multicore architecture, each core consists of a pair of pipelines that can run independently (running separate threads) or in concert (running the same thread and verifying results). Redundancy is enabled selectively, at functional unit granularity. The architecture also employs timing speculation for mitigation of variation-induced timing errors and to reduce the power overhead of error protection. On-line control based on machine learning dynamically adjusts multiple parameters to minimize energy consumption. Evaluation shows that dynamic adaptation of voltage and redundancy can reduce the energy delay product of a CMP by 30 − 60 % compared to static dual modular redundancy. 1 |
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| Subject Keyword | Flexible Error Protection Energy Efficient Reliable Architecture Acceptable Reliability Target Error Protection Minimum Energy Technology Scaling Individual Core Power Consumption Supply Voltage Reliability Goal Energy Delay Product Microprocessor Reliability Targeted Error Protection Energy-efficient Solution Multiple Parameter Dynamic Adaptation Variation-induced Timing Error Static Dual Modular Redundancy Energy Consumption Detrimental Effect Separate Thread Reliability Problem On-line Control Multicore Architecture Significant Bottleneck Functional Unit Granularity Reliable Multicore Architecture Chip Multiprocessor Power Overhead |
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| Resource Type | Article |
